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The Therapist's Notebook, Vol. 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy 2nd Edition
Author(s): Lorna L. Hecker (Editor), Catherine Ford Sori
- Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc.
- Publication Date: April 17, 2007
- Edition: 2nd
- Language: English
- Print length: 312 pages
- ISBN-10: 0789028026
- ISBN-13: 9780789028020
Book Description
Get the updated classic that provides innovative exercises that promotes change
The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, is the updated classic that provides mental health clinicians with hands-on tools to use in daily practice. This essential resource includes helpful homework assignments, reproducible handouts, and activities and interventions that can be applied to a wide variety of clients and client problems. Useful case studies illustrate how the activities can be effectively applied. Each expert contributor employs a consistent chapter format, making finding the ’right’ activity easy.
The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, includes innovative field-tested activities to assist therapists in a wide range of applications, including adults, children, adolescents and families, couples, group work, trauma/abuse recovery, divorce and stepfamily issues, and spirituality. Format for each chapter follow by type of contribution (activity, handout, and/or homework for clients and guidance for clinicians in utilizing the activities or interventions), objectives, rationale for use, instructions, brief vignette, suggestions for follow-up, and contraindications. Three different reference sections include references, professional readings and resources, and bibliotherapy sources for the client.
Various theoretical perspectives are presented in The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, including:
- cognitive behavioral
- narrative therapy
- solution focus
- choice theory and reality therapy
- REBT
- strategic family therapy
- experiential
- art and play therapies
- couples approaches including Gottman and Emotionally Focused Therapy
- medical family therapy
- Jungian
- family-of-origin therapy
- adventure-based therapy
The Therapist’s Notebook, Volume 2: More Homework, Handouts, and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy, is a horizon-expanding guide for marriage and family therapists, psychiatric nurses, counselors, social workers, psychologists, pastoral counselors, occupational therapists, counselor educators, school social workers, school counselors, and students.
Editorial Reviews
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Drs. Hecker and Sori have again collected A CORNUCOPIA OF HELPFUL STRATEGIES. The format is EASY TO USE, pick a page and apply the idea with your clients to deepen the therapy experience. —
Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP, Distinguished Professor, Governors State UniversityLorna and Catherine have done it again! The fruits that can be picked from this tree of clinical wisdom are substantial. The artful landscape and clinical scope the editors cover is IMPRESSIVE. Each of the contributors plants their ideas in well tilled theoretical ground, arrange colorful clinical vignettes, and illuminate pathways for further reading for both clinician and client. —
Timothy F. Dwyer, PhD, McCormick Tribune Foundation Chair in Marital and Family Therapy, MSMFT Program Director, The Family Institute at Northwestern UniversitySURPASSES THE FIRST VOLUME IN EVERY WAY. It is a treasure chest of useful, validated, clinical interventions that fit a broad array of situations. The authors come from all areas of practice. CLINICIANS OF ALL LEVELS WILL FIND THEMSELVES RETURNING AGAIN AND AGAIN TO THIS BOOK. —
Joseph L. Wetchler, PhD, Professor and Director, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Purdue University, Calumet
